Plaster Heads are a pain in my A**!

Ok it's two days until Halloween and I have ZERO costumes for my kids! UGh!!!! The clown head which is now finished turned out to be way HEAVY for Benny to wear. So now I'm starting from scratch with a lame face mask made from cardboard and sculpey. Let's just see how that one turns out. HAH!

Antonio's costume is waiting on me getting my new sewing machine set up. I am making Antonio a Bat this year. I feel kinda bad that his costume won't be as cool as Benny's use to be. Having two kids seems to make things a lot harder and I'm much more tired!!!

Clown Head in progress

Finished Head

I usually can't make anything scary. I do think the clown came out pretty good, but I guess that's because ALL clowns are creepy!!! 

My Giant Witch Head

I decided to make a GIANT witch head for Halloween this year. First I started with a big punching Balloon and added strips of newspaper dipped in Plaster of Paris. After a few coats of that, I added the details by rolling newspaper into shapes and taping the crap out of them!

I added them with plaster and more newspaper over top. The Witch isn't as smooth as I would of liked, but I didn't have much time to work on my own costume. I still have TWO more costumes to make! I guess the roughness of the plaster works ok for the witch since her skin is probably all wrinkly and gross anyway!

Plaster of Paris Details Added

Painted Head

Hairy Wart! 

Wig on and Finished!

Bah Hah Hah!

I can't wait to wear this. Now I just need to figure out how! haha

Halloween!

I love Halloween! I especially LOVE getting to create unique hand made costumes for my kids and this year even one for me! Here are a few of my favorite costumes I made in the past.

Swamp Monster

Benny The Alien

I thought it would be fun if Benny drew up a design for his own costume this year. Here is his crazy clown guy that I am going to make come to life! Benny says his key features are his crazy spiked hair and blue tie. Ok got it! 

Benny's Crazy Clown

The Start of the  Clown Head

As you can see I still have A LOT of work to do! So I better get back to it!:)

Anyone working on a handmade costume this year??